>> I'm also not sure where "An average 4WD has a lifespan of 2-3 times that of a small private car" comes from
From the sheer numbers of older 4WD's on our roads as compared to the number of smaller cars of the same age.
And that's due to the fact that, sooner or later, a person who drives a small family car is going to encounter an SUV driver who thinks rules of the road and traffic signals are just advisory.
Science began as an investigation for "The Truth", not any particular practical application of The Truth
It stands to reason that science grew out of practical applications. Technology, albeit primitive and driven by trial and error, has been around almost since humans became human.
Do you really think our neolithic ancesters studied mechanics, climatology, geology, zoology and botany for the pure pursuit of knowledge?
It's much more plausible that they did it so they could eat.
There are valid groupings of people other than nations, and other nations have patent offices too - in some cases almost as crazy as the US one. You're being a bit over-literal in your interpretation.
So you could consider it (or the businesses driving it) an outside aggressor from the viewpoint of the FOSS community.
1) Take X$ per machine from crapware providers for installing crapware on windows 2) Save Y$ windows license per non-windows machine sold without telling crapware providers. 3)... 4) Even more profit!!!!!
Er, fuck you with the strawman. It's a pretty accurate analogy of the "it's happening anyway so a bit more won't harm" argument that all you SUV driving dick-compensators come out with. Did I mention fuck you?
Not having the book to hand at work, I looked on Amazon. Seems it was a solo effort by both of them and a joint effort, if you look at the first three entries.
I do so beg your imperial smugness' pardon for being so unworthy and actually having fucking work to do.
Just because Mars has global warming or the Earth has had global warming in the past doesn't mean that we aren't causing it now and that the effects of our added global warming won't be significantly different from natural global warming.
Their logic seems to be that if sealevels would have naturally risen by (say) 30 feet, it doesn't matter if we make them rise by an additional 20.
Well no, it doesn't matter. Not unless you happen to live around 40 feet above sea level.
Yes, that true American spirit that has propelled us since the first foot was stepped on the shores of this country is dead and buried.
It was probably OK till the latecomers arrived. You know, that pale skinned mob who arrived from the other (Atlantic) side. Been heap big trouble since they showed up.
if the police started enforcing the laws regarding the use of turn signals when changing lanes, minimum safe following distances and use of the passing lane. I'm pretty sure that people violating these laws cause many more accidents than people chatting on cell phones while driving.
I'd say there's quite a lot of overlap between the two groups. Which is the cause and which is the effect I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
Niven and Pournelle's "Mote in God's Eye" and it's sequel "The Gripping Hand" are very very good hard SF books, and the Moties are created by extrapolating what their biology would dictate their society be like
While this is true (don't get me wrong, the books are among my favourites) they do rely a bit on 'magic' like the Alderson drive & the Langston(?) shield.
Pournelle's solo effort "Lucifer's Hammer", about the lead up to and aftermath of a comet impact, is well worth a read.
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... or that trucks don't go flying over people's heads. Often.
Do you really think our neolithic ancesters studied mechanics, climatology, geology, zoology and botany for the pure pursuit of knowledge?
It's much more plausible that they did it so they could eat.
You had it easy. We had all that on the same day, and then we got nuked from orbit, just to be sure. But we were happy.
Unpossible, that's what SOX exists to prevent!
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Fair enough, since Russia has no experience of YOU!
Nothing on Netcraft yet.
There are valid groupings of people other than nations, and other nations have patent offices too - in some cases almost as crazy as the US one. You're being a bit over-literal in your interpretation.
So you could consider it (or the businesses driving it) an outside aggressor from the viewpoint of the FOSS community.
In the same way that Pearl Harbor was a good thing, because it was evidence what the Japs were really up to.
It's obvious what's new: the original story wan't doubly linked until the new one came out.
Business plan 2.0 for Dell.
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1) Take X$ per machine from crapware providers for installing crapware on windows
2) Save Y$ windows license per non-windows machine sold without telling crapware providers.
3)
4) Even more profit!!!!!
Er, fuck you with the strawman. It's a pretty accurate analogy of the "it's happening anyway so a bit more won't harm" argument that all you SUV driving dick-compensators come out with. Did I mention fuck you?
I do so beg your imperial smugness' pardon for being so unworthy and actually having fucking work to do.
Well no, it doesn't matter. Not unless you happen to live around 40 feet above sea level.